LINVAL AND Menervah Taylor believe that a good education is the key to success, as knowledge and learning empower individuals to achieve personal and professional goals, develop critical thinking skills, and adapt to changing circumstances For the...

TEN-YEAR-OLD Matthew Anderson is perhaps the youngest person in the Caribbean to pass subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, an internationally recognised secondary school qualification in the Caribbean...

WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY’S First Dance Studio, which has been on a mission to uphold local arts and culture in western Jamaica since 2013, was on Monday presented with a $350,000 donation to help finance their operations. The donation, which was...

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on Jamaicans to support the country’s arts culture, which he says is both crucial to Jamaica’s tourism and entertainment sectors and for the uplifting of societal structure. Vernon made...

WHILE SHE was on her way back to Jamaica from CARIFESTA in Barbados, spoken-word artiste/poet Kacy Garvey was announced the ‘Best International Artist’ at the prestigious National Spoken Word Awards, held on Friday, August 31. In speaking with The...

Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby has expressed disappointment that the by-election for the Seivwright Gardens division was not held on the same day as the September 3 General Election, citing the added financial burden to taxpayers. By-elections...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, is urging the municipal authorities and mayors across Jamaica to be vigilant and ensure all election paraphernalia are removed «within reasonable time». "It is important...

The Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) has launched a new brand identity, aimed at signalling transformation, renewal, and a commitment to meeting the needs of today’s students. Executive Director, Nickeisha Walsh, tells JIS News that the rebrand is...

The country is to be given an update on the swearing in of the new Government following a meeting tomorrow morning between Prime Minister-designate Dr Andrew Holness and Governor General Sir Patrick Allen. Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is calling for the Ministry of Education and Youth to introduce strict limitations on the actions schools can take against students who breach their grooming and dress code guidelines. In a media release...

A dispute over the price of a tray of eggs is what may have set off a deadly chain of events in Manchester on Tuesday, which ended when a man, armed with two guns and more than 500 bullets, was shot and killed after a fierce stand-off and gun...

The Catherine North police are seeking the public’s assistance to locate two men who have been listed as persons of interest in an ongoing investigation. One of the men, Orville Roache, otherwise called ‘Jermaine’, ‘Banton’, ‘Suchie’, ‘Bob’ or ‘...

Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby is calling for the introduction of a structured system to ensure the timely removal of campaign signs and other paraphernalia following elections. Speaking at Tuesday’s monthly sitting of the Kingston and St Andrew...

LONDON (AP) — A 57-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly possessing tear gas that is believed to have caused the partial evacuation of a terminal at Heathrow Airport. About 20 people treated by paramedics were not seriously injured in...

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country’s fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of...

A teenager was among two people injured in a gun attack at a bar along Old Harbour Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Monday night. They remain in hospital. The police say the search continues to capture the attackers. It is reported that...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly a half-million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan...

Primary schools across St Elizabeth have placed literacy at the forefront of their teaching agenda for the 2025/2026 academic year. The institutions are determined to strengthen fluency and comprehension skills among the young minds of the parish...

SOUTH DAKOTA, CMC – A Jamaican man has pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the District of South Dakota in connection with a long-running scheme to defraud a California woman. Dwayne Anderson, 35, of Hanover, pleaded guilty to a federal...

Munro College and football head coach, Kemar Ricketts, have agreed to part ways amid the first round of the 2025 season of the ISSA Schoolboy Football Competition. Ricketts was the coach last season and returned at the start of this season....

Jamaica has recorded another week of double-digit murders, according to the latest serious crime statistics published by the Jamaica Constabulary Force on Sunday. For the period 31 August to 6 September, 10 Jamaicans were killed. Among those...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is to decide today whether to seek magisterial recounts in Trelawny Northern and St Catherine East Central, where the party says the number of rejected ballots exceeded the margins of victory. The...

JN Money Services has expanded its remittance services into 10 new countries, deepening its global reach and strengthening financial lifelines for more migrant families. The new territories are Gambia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Ghana, Honduras, India,...

LONDON: The Jamaican diaspora in the United Kingdom (UK) is urging the newly-elected government in Jamaica to avoid complacency, having been voted in for a third consecutive tenure in office. The message from a variety of academics in the UK...

Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Audrey Deer-Williams, has called on senior citizens to remain active, engaged, and purposeful as the nation celebrates Senior Citizens’ Month. Speaking at the National Senior...

Custos of St Ann, businessman Joseph Issa, is advocating for the establishment of backgammon clubs in high schools across Jamaica. Issa, who with his 17-year-old son, John, is an avid backgammon player, made the call after hosting the fifth annual...

Nearly 200 wards of the State from western Jamaica will be starting the new school year with brighter smiles and school supplies, courtesy of the Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF). The children were hosted at the foundation’s annual back-to-school...

Schools across Kingston and St Andrew reopened smoothly on Monday, following adjustments to the 2025/26 academic calendar to accommodate the September 3 General Election. This was confirmed by Director of Regional Educational Services in the...

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says one driver in the government's rural school bus programme was recorded as having 14 speeding violations during the first official roll-out of the buses today. In a post on Monday evening on social media platform...

Three men, including twin brothers, have been charged with house breaking and larceny and receiving stolen property in relation to the theft of motorcycles and All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs). Charged are 28-year-old deliveryman Kevorne James, 28-year...

A man died on Friday after being struck by lightning in Bethel Town, Westmoreland. The deceased has been identified as 38-year-old O’Dean Porter, a farmer of Marl Road in the parish. The incident occurred along Ventura Road in Bethel Town. It is...

A Westmoreland furniture maker has been charged for allegedly failing to make furniture ordered by a woman and for failing to return her money. Thirty-six-year-old Rayon Bromfield, otherwise called ‘Eggie’, of Gordon District in Whitehouse, has...

PARIS (AP) — Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister...

The Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston will be closed between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to facilitate scheduled electrical infrastructure works. PAC Kingston Airport Limited, the operator of the airport, on Monday advised...

The decomposing body of a man with gunshot wounds was found in a ditch along a road in Ramble, Manchester on Sunday. He has been identified as 33-year-old Oraine Kesley, otherwise called 'Bad Bush', of Good Hope in the parish. Police report that...